linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] VFS: minor improvements to a couple of interfaces

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Message-ID: <20250210-abrieb-aspekt-80b6455a99de@brauner>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:41:58 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, 
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>, 
	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...nel.org>, Anna Schumaker <anna@...nel.org>, 
	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>, Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, 
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>, Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>, Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>, 
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, 
	audit@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] VFS: minor improvements to a couple of interfaces

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 08:42:46AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 09:25:26AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:36:46 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> > >  I found these opportunities for simplification as part of my work to
> > >  enhance filesystem directory operations to not require an exclusive
> > >  lock on the directory.
> > >  There are quite a collection of users of these interfaces incluing NFS,
> > >  smb/server, bcachefs, devtmpfs, and audit.  Hence the long Cc line.
> > > 
> > > NeilBrown
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > 
> > I've taken your first cleanup. Thanks for splitting those out of the
> > other series.
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Applied to the vfs-6.15.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
> > Patches in the vfs-6.15.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.
> 
> Might be better to put it into a separate branch, so that further
> work in that direction wouldn't be mixed with other stuff...

Yep, good call:

vfs-6.15.async.dir